ss gfx

[Cheese]

what would cause this:

 

 

http://cz.cz.sshq.net/stuff/wtf.png

 

 

also, chat bg isnt loading either

[Cheese]

everything else works properly

[L.C.]

Your menutext.bm2 is missing, corrupted, or replaced by something that Continuum won't accept.

 

menutext.zip

Edited May 7, 2010 by L.C.

[Samapico]

The ship graphics not loading though... messed up skin? corrupted ships.dat file?

 

I suggest downloading the continuum40.zip file, and replacing everything you have (except profiles.dat, zones.dat, keys.dat and macro.dat). This would rule out any 'file corrupted' possibility

[Cheese]

lol, i renamed every file in the graphics folder from .bm2 to .bmp and forgot about it.

[L.C.]

You MUST have these three files with EXACTLY the same filename, and they must ALL be in genuine BMP format:

* menutext.bm2

* ships.bm2

* tiles.bm2

 

This is because of hardcoding. It might be possible to change this by unpacking the CRC, changing the 'bm2' part to 'png' via HEX Editor, and repacking the CRC. It looks literally for "menutext.bm2" and not "menutext.*" where * can be jpg/jpeg/gif/png/whatever, unlike all the other graphic files. Although it somehow knows whether or not the image you're trying to use it genuine BMP format or not, so even if you tried this, it probably still wouldn't work because you aren't using a raw BMP.

[Cheese]

Although it somehow knows whether or not the image you're trying to use it genuine BMP format or not

 

thats because every bmp has the letters 'BM' 5 bytes in =)